HEALTH CARE REFORM BILL(S)

There will likely be some form of health insurance reform that passes both houses of Congress and finds its way to Zero's desk, and he will sign it and declare a huge victory! The new bill will make it mandatory for all employers to provide access to health insurance to all employees and will mandate that all employees must accept and pay for that health insurance. These employees are the young who do not really utilize the services of health care providers. Think back to when you were in your 20s or early 30s - how often did you consult a doctor? The upside of all of this is that we who possess health insurance that we like - and I mostly like mine - will be enabled to keep it. And we won't have to accede to euthanasia as was feared by many, including me. No more "pre-existing" conditions, increased and guaranteed portability of health insurance, probably including more and smaller employers being covered by the law.

The President overreached and the leaders in Congress, particularly La Pelosi and Henry Waxman (a despicable little man) were too incompetent and thus, unable to produce the massive and comprehensive overhaul of the health care delivery system that Zero wanted. Thank God for that. What we now have works fairly well. Socialized medicine would not work all that well. Think about the Veterans Administration and how poorly it serves our veterans. We've managed to dodge that bullet! We must remain vigilant, should they try to put one over on us again in the future!

It occurs to me that much of what Zero has put on the books since taking office in January will eventually - and justifiably - be ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. For a man who claims to be a professor of constitutional law, our president is curiously ignorant of what the U.S. Constitution actually says - about his powers and about the powers of the legislative branch. Let me 'splain Lucy - the U.S. Congress is responsible for enacting the laws, the Supreme Court is responsible for interpreting the laws, and the President serves as commander in chief of the Armed Forces whilst being available to sign legislation produced by the Congress such that it passes into law. Do they even teach civics in schools these days? I swear, there are more people in this nation who are ignorant of the Constitution and its provisions than there ought to be! They prattle on mindlessly about our "democracy" and don't even know that this nation is a Republic. Most Americans don't seem to understand that all the powers of governance were given to the individual states. The Federal government's powers and responsibilities are clearly spelled out in the Constitution and then it goes on to say that if the Constitution doesn't give the Federal government the power, they cannot claim it! All powers not specifically given to the Federal government belong to the individual state governments. Nowhere in the Constitution does the Federal government have the power to take over General Motors and Chrysler! Dear merciful heavens. A lot of people don't even seem to know that the President is not our ruler, but rather that HE or SHE is OUR employee. They are not the boss of us. The reverse is true. We are the boss of THEM. And not remembering this simple fact is what gets us into heaps of trouble!

Then again, if we don't speak up and insist that they remember their specific responsibilities, we pretty much deserve what we get in the way of governance! If we don't vote, we have no right to complain. And if you're here illegally, you have the absolute right to leave but I am not willing to grant any other right to you. Our country, our rules. Suck it up and deal!

IT IS TIME TO BE GRATEFUL!

It is time to be grateful that Nancy Pelosi is the most spectacularly incompetent Speaker of the House we have ever had! It is time to be grateful that she chose the uncivil, uncooperative, truly offensive and ignorant Henry Waxman (I used to live in California. I don't hate him. Only his guts!) to push the awful health care reform bill along. The socialist agenda being pushed by Zero is doomed to failure with Pelosi and Reid shepherding it through Congress. Be enormously grateful!

At the beginning of Zero's term in office, I was hoping he would succeed as president. Now I am hoping that he will succeed in letting Nancy and Henry BE Nancy and Henry, their most authentic selves. In that way, our nation will be protected from their evil and despicable intentions, as well as their poorly thought out attempts at legislating cradle-to-grave socialism for a nation that has thrived and done well under our capitalist government. It's like watching a pair of mentally challenged and somewhat inebriated bears attempting to wrestle each other!

Thank you, God, for providing us with Nancy and Henry to balance the appalling intentions of Zero!

TODAY'S MUST READ

The brilliant Jed Babbin writing in Human Events 7/27/09: The Incredible Shrinking President With every passing week the president's sphere of influence gets smaller and smaller.

It's as always masterfully written prose, but there is one line that totally made the article for me: Obama is a small man, as deeply shallow as Paris Hilton. In that one sentence, he has completely summed up the current poseur in chief!

R.I.P.

Jim at Gateway Pundit lost his beloved mother Dorothy Hoft today. Please join me in praying for the repose of her soul and comfort to Jim and his entire extended family who are suffering the pain of Dorothy's loss today.

I KNOW I SAID THIS BEFORE . . .!

But blogging will be suspended until after 8/10/09 due to my impending surgery on 8/6/09 - a minor inconvenience and one from which I expect to be soon mended! If Zero does something truly astonishingly horrid (that's always a possibility) or if Bill O'Reilly does or says something that is amazingly humble (unlikely), I will have to drop my 2 cents worth into the mix. Otherwise, I'm taking a break, folks! Me and Sam the Wonder Cat will be nesting!

TIME TO DROP THE SUBJECT!

The State of Hawaii has made it quite clear that they intend to defend the native-born birth of President Obama, regardless of whether or not facts support their defense. So it's time to drop the subject.

The neverending debate about whether or not Barack Hussein Obama was born on American soil is a distraction. And to the extent that this has been done, the debate has been fueled by President Obama's coy behavior vis-a-vis his birth and other life history records. Why would our President want us to be all exercised about whether or not he is legally holding the office? I think he believes that we are not capable of considering two concepts at a time. That we will become so exercised with the birther movement that he can slip all manner of unwise and unconstitutional or UnAmerican laws and programs past us without our notice.

It would be wise for us all to remember that we are dealing with a CHICAGO politician - I've seen corkscrews more straightforward! All manner of subterfuge and chicanery are the stock in trade of a Chicago politician and Barack Hussein Obama is no different. Let's focus on his anti-American agenda and behavior and keep calling foul whenever one is committed. Let's not let the smoke and mirrors of questions about his birth records keep our attention away from what is really important! I grew up in Ohio - and the twists and turns of Chicago politics were always fascinating to me. Repulsive but fascinating.

The man is an empty, well-tailored suit. He is unfit to serve, not because of the location of his birth but because of the contents - or lack thereof - of his character. He is the original stealth officeholder - a Marxist in liberal clothing whose distaste for and dislike - nay contempt - for America and most of America's citizenry becomes more evident with every passing day. By his works shall we know him. And so far, his works have been destructive and ill conceived, hastily pushed through flimflam that will burden our nation's citizens for generations to come.

So move away from the birth certificate issue. There are more offensive aspects to Mr. Obama than the location of his birth. We have a virulently anti-American president. Let's deal with that. How to contain him. Keep him from wreaking further havoc on the American way of life. Keep this supposed "constitutional scholar" from destroying the U.S. Constitution! We have evil in the White House, folks. Let's concentrate on containing him (via the 2010 elections) and removing him from office (via the 2012 elections) and then, with a Congress filled with intelligent and courageously steadfast elected members, we can undo a lot of the Obama damage! We must use our wisdom (a quality in the American body politic that Mr. Obama has chosen to ignore or denigrate) and our courage to interdict the foul and evil plans Mr. Obama and his sponsors have for our great nation, until such time as we can VOTE this aberrant disgrace out of office.

HARDLY ANYBODY LIKES NANCY PELOSI!

And she doesn't care!

In an article appearing in Politico Pelosi opined as follows:

"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is one of the most despised political figures in the country.

And, frankly, she doesn’t give a damn.

“No, I don’t care,” Pelosi told POLITICO last Thursday, laughing heartily as she walked beneath the Capitol dome and plunged into a crowd of tourists.

Last week’s Public Strategies Inc./POLITICO poll brought grim news for Pelosi, revealing that only a quarter of Americans trust the San Francisco Democrat — putting her in the basement with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio).

Mention of the “trust” question halted the click-clack of Pelosi’s heels against Rotunda marble, and she turned to face the reporter who posed the question.

“I don’t know about ‘trust’ — I think I’m trusted,” she said.

“I certainly want to be trusted. I’m not particularly concerned if I’m liked.”

But month after month of polling shows that the speaker is neither trusted nor liked by the general public — even as she emerges from one of the most productive legislative periods any speaker has ever enjoyed."

I'm glad this blithering idiot finds the whole thing amusing! Maybe she'll still be amused when the Democrats lose their majority in both houses come November 2010!

WHY WE'RE IN THIS MESS!

Congressman John Conyers (D-Mich.), questioned the point of lawmakers reading the health care bill.

“I love these members, they get up and say, ‘Read the bill,’” said Conyers.

“What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?”

You freaking WROTE the damned bill, why don't you know what infamia is contained therein!? More important Congressman, we're expected to abide by what's in the bill. Don't we have a right to expect that YOU, our employee, will do the job you've been elected to do and read the silly damned thing!?

PENDING SURGERY AND OTHER HASSLES!

My roto-rooter surgery is scheduled for 8/6/09 and Sam the Wonder Cat will be staying at the veterinarian's office since he is diabetic and needs to get insulin daily! The need for this precaution became even more urgent on Saturday night. Sam the Wonder Cat had an insulin-related seizure on Saturday night and I'm exhausted from dealing with it. I shot some maple syrup down his gullet which stopped the seizure but it was hours before he really "came back" to me. He even stopped breathing for a moment at one point - I started petting him really hard when that happened and he started to breathe again. Yesterday we were both absolutely exhausted - but he gets to sleep all day today and I'm at work! And cleaning up the mess he made on the kitchen floor took a lot of energy as well. I'm just grateful my baby is okay!

THE ACORN REPORT IS AVAILABLE ONLINE

Very interesting reading. Go here to commence a fascinating journey! You need to have Acrobat Reader for this one!

I DON'T THINK SO!

In July 2008, Pittsburgh Steelers' quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was at Harrah's in Reno for a personal appearance. Now, one full year later and absent any kind of timely criminal complaint with its attendant collection of fresh physical evidence (as in "rape kit") some female is claiming that he raped her when he was in Reno. How does this bimbo intend to prove her case? Is she counting on "he said/she said" to enable her to cash in on a Super Bowl champion's bank account? Does she have the equivalent of Monica's little blue dress in her back pocket? And what exactly - at this late date - would anything of that ilk prove?

Bottom line, my opinion is that this female was likely trying to extort money from Ben Roethlisberger by threatening to accuse him of this heinous act and he refused to be intimidated! So she was forced to put up or shut up or leave herself vulnerable to a charge of extortion! And no, I don't automatically believe her story simply because I am also a woman. Women have become way too prone to making false and sexually related claims to get their own way over the past 20 years. The Duke lacrosse players can testify to that painful fact. Is that what the women's movement was all about? Have we abandoned all semblance of decency and fair dealing with one another? I must be getting old!

DEMS ARE WORRIED THAT SHE'S TOO ABRASIVE!


You think?

Open Letter to President Obama

I am 67 years old and still working full time as a legal secretary. One of the reasons I continue to work so hard (and working for attorneys is doggone hard work) is to maintain my excellent health coverage.

I have read what is available to the general public of the new reorganization scheme vis-à-vis health care and frankly – it stinks.

One of the most disturbing portions of the plan is that, yes, you claim we can keep our private health insurance coverage and then, throughout this new plan, everything is done to make that untenable. The other area in which I believe great danger lies is the requirement that seniors work with their doctors (not lawyers) to update and discuss their end-of-life planning! What’s up with that – are you slipping euthanasia to us on the down low? If so, I respectfully decline!

Your ambitions far outrun your abilities and those of your majority in Congress who, by the way, don’t seem all that enthused about your health care boondoggle either! Other than Nancy Pelosi (who I consider to be certifiable and somewhat stunted mentally due to over use of botox), I’m not sensing a lot of enthusiasm for your grand imposition of socialized medicine on an unwilling American public. Of the 47 million you claim are uninsured, are you aware that many of them are young people, new to the workforce, who don’t want to pay $100+ per month to cover their one doctor visit per year? How many of the 47 million you are counting are actually in this country illegally (I’m not counting YOU in that number)?

The bottom line, Mr. President, is this: You’ve used up whatever limited political capital you might have possessed with me when you began your administration. Your demeanor since the Inauguration has been arrogant and imperial. Are you aware that you are merely a temporary caretaker and not the new imperial ruler of this nation? Are you aware that you work FOR me, and not the other way around? Are you aware that you are already quite distinguished in the minds of many – who consider you to be the worst president since James Earl Carter, Jr.? Perhaps it would be a good idea if you just spent the next 3+ years studying the U.S. Constitution so you can truthfully say you’re an expert on it. So far you’ve proven to be woefully ignorant, despite your unsubstantiated claim to have been a professor of constitutional law!

WHAT'S THE RUSH?

The President is hellbent on getting his new health care scheme passed into law -- apparently before anyone has a chance to read it. Here's a possible reason:

Section 1233 of HR 3200 the elderly are required to visit their doctors and nurse practitioners every 5 years to discuss information such as living wills, hospice, durable powers of attorney, and other end of life decisions.

The section requires that they talk to their doctor, not a lawyer, about living wills, durable healthcare powers of attorney, hospice, etc. Given the progressive intelligentsia already being on the record in favor of euthanizing the elderly, it is no small leap to see where the Democrats are headed with this.

Legally forcing senior citizens to have "death with dignity schedules every few years is just another way to say the government wants to make sure seniors know it is time to commit suicide to save the system money.

The more time passes, the more obvious will the horrors of this evil health care scheme become evident to the American people. It is very clear that Zero intends to force this health care bill down the throats of the American public with or without our acceptance of it. Call your Congressman and Senator today and tell them flat out - vote for this bill at your re-election peril!

MORE PROOF THAT LIBERALS ARE FAR MORE RACIST THAN CONSERVATIVES!

"The city of Cambridge issued a statement saying the arrest "was regrettable and unfortunate" and police and Gates agreed that dropping the charge was a just resolution.

"This incident should not be viewed as one that demeans the character and reputation of professor Gates or the character of the Cambridge Police Department," the statement said."

First they arrest the man for breaking into his own house and for objecting vociferously to their continuing suspicion of him (they think HE was loud - you'd hear my big mouth shouting 10 blocks away), AFTER he has shown them his university identification card AND his picture I.D. - I'd sue the silly twits, that's what I'd do! But his immediate and unwarranted assumption that their suspicion of him was racially motivated is foolish and just plain wrong. He was behaving badly. Police officers don't like that!

The policeman, Sgt. Crowley, is being accused of racism (easy charge to make, hard to prove) because he arrested Prof. Gates. Here's my thought - even a respectable, normally mild-mannered person can become a raving lunatic on occasion. Sgt. Crowley, following his inclination to protect and defend his fellow citizens, probably arrested Prof. Gates for his own protection given the circumstances. And Barack Hussein Obama should have kept his ignorant pie hole shut until he knew ALL the circumstances!

UPDATE: This powerful open letter to the President from the wife of a police officer in Miami, who also happens to be a police dispatcher herself!

R.I.P. MARY JO KOPECHNE

Although he never truly had to answer for the death 40 years ago of this young woman, it seems to me that the time is rapidly approaching when his brain cancer specifies that Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Dewars) will be forced to answer to the incorruptible Judge for all his acts of commission and omission! In the meantime, I will pray for the repose of her soul on this anniversary of her death at the hands of an irresponsible drunkard!

YESTERDAY'S EYE-OPENER!

I was at Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, Virginia most of the day yesterday doing pre-operative stuff (EKG, blood work, visit with the vascular surgeon - he's adorable) and kept my mouth shut and my little pointed ears open.

Lots of people in my age group (seniors) are getting possibly necessary work done NOW (that includes me) because they are afraid that "Obamacare" will condemn them to death! They don't support him, they don't LIKE him, they fear his ability to damage our nation. The interesting side note on this is that many of the people who are losing or who have lost faith in Zero are the very people who voted for him! They were saying things like "What were we thinking?" and the like. I have the same question for them, "What WERE you thinking? Or were you thinking at all?"

WE HAVE THE SUPPORT OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!

Thus spake the mentally retarded Speaker of the House of Representatives, the hardly honorable Nancy Pelosi (D-Botox). If ever the American political scene featured anyone more delusional or uninformed than this creature from the degenerate netherworld of San Francisco, I've never seen any evidence of it and I've been immersed in our nation's history for 57 of my 67 years on this earth. I had a teacher in school who made American history interesting and that early fascination has never waned.

Nancy, you do NOT have my support, nor will you ever have it. I have private health insurance and I'm freaking keeping it, you demented loon!

GOOD GOVERNMENT IS ABOUT MORE THAN ENTERTAINING THE PEASANTS!

I am, unhappily reminded of the song from the musical "Evita" which contained that phrase!

With all the travel, the "date nights", the hamburger runs around the District, President Obama has been doing his very best to keep the peasants entertained with irrelevant nonsense, all the while rushing his destructive Left-wing agenda through a compliant Congress, who don't even read the 1,000+ page bills! President Zero must have been delighted that the death of Michael Jackson led to over two weeks of unbridled hysteria in the news media.

Apparently our current President is attempting to destroy America as we know it as completely as possible because he knows, he must know, that he will soon be unmasked as the vapid tool of destruction he really is and the fact that he is beholden to such as George Soros will be his ultimate undoing.

Will President Barack Hussein Obama go down in history as the worst American president of all time? Or will Jimmy Carter manage to hang on by his fingernails to that unenviable title?

RE: JUDGE SOTOMAYOR

Writing at Red State, E Pluribus Unum presents us with the following truly marvelous sentence: "Honestly, she could kiss Pat Leahy on the lips (Ick!) and grab John Cornyn’s rear while singing “Look for the Union Label” and not fail to get voted out of the Judiciary Committee." (parenthetical expressions of disgust all from Gayle)

All I’m saying is – I’d pay good money to see that! In fact, I think we could use something like that! We're all so earnest and serious these days. Let's laugh a little!

CONFIRMING SOTOMAYOR

It certainly looks like the lady is going to be confirmed. She has been deft beyond belief in dealing with potential minefields and her rumpled and unkempt appearance hasn't seemed to harm her one little bit. Thank goodness she'll be wearing robes to conceal her poor taste in clothing.

Naturally, the thing that is garnering the most attention is the exchange with Senator Coburn wherein he used the phrase "Lucy, you got some 'splaining to do'. A lot of asinine attention will be paid by the armies of the politically correct. Those of us of a certain age just find it amusing since Ricky Ricardo said that so often on "I Love Lucy" with varying (and usually justified) degrees of frustration.

Ethnically, Cubans (which Ricky Ricardo was) are wholly different from natives of Puerto Rico. They combine African and other cultural elements in their ancestry. Judge Sotomayor is of Puerto Rican descent which is much more purely Hispanic in nature. Nevertheless, I will expect to hear nonsense from the humorless Left about this innocent exchange.

President Obama could have done worse in nominating this woman to the Supreme Court. At least Judge Sotomayor has a more compelling claim to American citizenship than does the President! She may be a biased loon, but she comes across very well.

I COULDN'T LET THIS PASS UNREMARKED!

Is it my imagination, or is our latest Supreme Court nominee a hot mess? Her suit doesn't fit, her hair isn't combed, she hasn't been groomed professionally in months!

I know I'm being picky as hell, and it's hardly something earth shattering to come back early for, but why do liberal women insist on being as unkempt as possible. Are they afraid nobody will take them seriously otherwise?

Here's the deal. You demonstrate respect for the congressional body that requires your presence by taking a shower, combing your hair and otherwise being groomed. You show your respect for YOURSELF by doing the same. There are many great hair dressers in the District. There's a place called Nantucket that is on H Street near the White House that gives fantastic haircuts and styling!

My carotid artery tidying job is scheduled for 7/28/09 and I will be out the balance of that week. Thanks to all of you for your good wishes and prayers. Getting older isn't for sissies!

BLOGGING WILL BE DISCONTINUED UNTIL 8/1/09 EXCEPT FOR HOT NEWS!

I will be having a roto rooter procedure on the blocked carotid artery in my neck in another couple of weeks and I need to concentrate on preparing for that. Several friends who have had the procedure assure me that it is a "piece of cake" and that you get "good drugs" whilst having the procedure. I want to come home to a clean and well organized house afterwards and not have to worry about things at all. So I'll be discontinuing my blog activities (unless of course we find proof that Obama isn't a U.S. citizen and we have the spectacle of him being frog-marched in handcuffs out of the White House) until after the procedure so I can concentrate on my LIFE.

THIS IS A SHOCKER!

In a rare and unexpected show of common sense, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has put the kibbosh on a special resolution honoring the late Michael Jackson!

See, even a moronic twit can make sense some of the time!

NO YOU DIDN'T!?

This wildly inappropriate tee shirt was sported by President Obama's daughter Malia while in Rome. Where were her parents? Where were the protocol people?

Clothing of this type (we won't even mention the "from the hood" clothing of her far-too-old male companion) is completely wrong for the daughter of a U.S. President in public. She is, whether she likes it or not, representing us - and we, as a nation, don't like to be dissed! One wonders if Michelle (who has no taste whatsoever) will be foolish enough to wear her trademark sleeveless garb when they have their audience with the Pope, or whether the girls will be in shorts. The Pope's diplomatic aides will make it quite clear to the Obamas that such garb is not permitted!

IS THIS THE END OF THE INSANITY?

Finally, finally, finally the memorial service for Michael Jackson is underway. Once the various networks have beaten the happenings at the Staples Center to death with their over-the-top coverage which is excessive and offensive - can we all move on and forget about this tormented and not terribly admirable man?

While the various alphabets and, shamefully Fox News, have been ad nauseum saying farewell to Mr. Jackson, young men of courage and character have been dying in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Iranian mullahs are still killing their own people. The U.S. Congress has been frittering away our nation's future with hastily passed and ill-considered (and not even read) spending bills. There are more important things going on in this world than the probably self-induced death of a probable sexual predator! Will these morons knock it the hell off? Not until they have wrung the last drop of advertising dollars from a credulous public! Sheesh!

WE HAVEN'T SEEN THE LAST OF SARAH PALIN!

At least I hope we haven't. One thing she said in an exclusive interview with the local (Anchorage) Fox News reporter who had the "experience" of going out on a fishing trawler with her is that most politicians have the luxury of facing their critics or the news media and saying "Leave my kids alone!" and she hasn't had that advantage.

I would say that she has taken what can only be described as felony-level battering from the national press corps and the leftwing blogsphere. And I do not want to hear from anyone the moral equivalency bullshit about what was said about Bill Clinton who admitted he was porking a chunky little intern nearly as young as his own daughter in the Oval office whilst on the phone with foreign leaders. It's a well known fact that blood flow can serve only one head at a time! Bill Clinton was blatantly lying to the American people and, worst of all, he was lying to a Grand Jury, which is called perjury and that is a FELONY in every state in the union.

Sarah Palin is an extraordinary woman. Liberals and especially the feminist nutbags hate her guts because she is beautiful, accomplished and tough as they come. If she lets some of the irrational hatemongering to die down a bit and removes herself from the constraints of public office, those who have been piling on the insults and calumny may find that they have really picked on the wrong woman. She served notice through her attorneys that anyone who prints false accusations (such as the one currently bouncing around in the leftwing blogs that she is soon to be indicted by a Federal Grand Jury - a charge that the FBI itself has labeled as absolutely without merit) will find themselves in a courtroom being sued for big bucks. You go Sarah! Sue the bastards! Removing their ill gotten gains from their pockets is the best way to shut them the hell up!

SARAH PALIN IN 2012!

Read more at Wide Awake Cafe where the analysis vis-a-vis Mrs. Palin is brilliant!

ENOUGH ALREADY!

The alphabet and cable networks are falling all over themselves with endless blathering about the life, death and significance of Michael Jackson. Here's the honest poop - he wasn't THAT great!

His so-called brilliance at dancing was repetitive and derivative. Much of what he did he copied from others - like Jackie Wilson and James Brown. His singing voice was only mediocre. And his personal life was - to put it mildly - an indefensible nightmare!

The irony of all of this is that his nearly-bankrupt estate will now, like that of Elvis before him, triple in value and thus be worth something to his three children - and does anyone believe that any of Jackson's DNA is present in those three children?

So stop the endless wailing and carrying on. He died from his own self-indulgence, just as Elvis did! Neither deserves to be treated as though they were the "greatest" anything at all. As an all around entertainer, Sammy Davis Jr. beat them both!

UGLY IS AS UGLY DOES!

MICHAEL JACKSON'S DEATH

The man was enormously talented and squandered all of his potential in aberrant and strange behavior. He is now facing the incorruptible judge and his unfortunate children have a slender chance of living a normal life (if they can change the asinine names he foisted upon each of them).

Wall-to-wall coverage by the various news networks pushed the death of Farrah Fawcett off the radar and more importantly, drowned out further news of the horrendous suffering of the Iranian people at the hands of their own government. Important stuff, like the U.S. Congress further destroying the future of this nation with crushing debt was given short shrift, if it was reported at all. Fox News was just as guilty as all other news (?) outlets for their fairly hysterical and fawning coverage of what is likely to turn out to be a drug-related death, just as in the case of Elvis Presley. And is it my imagination or is Shepherd Smith a total lightweight?! These people were idolized and yet their lives and deaths were train wrecks. Some role model!

Where are our values, and where are our priorities? Is it possible that our skewed values are coming back to bite us in the butt?

R.I.P. FARRAH FAWCETT

It's a sobering thing when people younger than you are succumbing to disease and you're still waking around, mainly healthy! Here was a beautiful woman, who seemed to have all the gifts a person seeks in life, including a man who loved her (albeit Ryan O'Neal is a very flawed man), a handsome, if troubled son who adored her, fame, money. I feel about Ms. Fawcett's death much as I felt about my late mother's death - I'm sorry to see her go but I'm glad that her horrendous pain is over.

Now, it is time to thank Ms. Fawcett for the gifts of entertainment she gave to us by remembering her in our prayers, along with her grieving family.

Farewell, beautiful lady. Rest well.

THE THUGS OF IRANIAN STATE SECURITY ARE ON THE MOVE

Secure in the knowledge that there is not a man of honor or morality occupying our White House, the brutal thugs of Iranian state security have been loosed upon the protestors in a raw display of viciousness and violation of their own citizens' civil rights that should make our president (voting "present" as usual) hang his head in shame. It is now being reported that state security is using axes on the protestors, throwing them off bridges, hunting them down with helicopters and beating old men to death in the streets! What kind of threat does an old man pose?

Thanks President Obama. Once again you prove that you are a dismal excuse for a President, utterly lacking in humanity, courage or character.

From an unidentified Twitter posting:

• More than 10.000 Bassij Milittias get position in Central Tehran, including Baharestan Sq.

• Army Helycopters flying over Baharestan and Vali Asr Sq.

• The streets, squares and around BAHARESTAN (Approx. South-eastern of Tehran) is swarming with military forces, civilian forces, the security motorists

• The croud have moved to the south of Baharestan, the situation is bad, the shooting has started

• In Baharestan Sq. in the Police shooting, A girl is shot and the police is not allowing to let them help

• In Baharestan we saw militia with axe chopping people like meat – blood everywhere – like butcher

This is the Iranian regime that our president (until today) hesitated to criticize at all, wading into its own unarmed people and axing them to death, bludgeoning women (seen as the greatest threat to the regime) and throwing them to their deaths from pedestrian bridges. The same Iranian regime whose embassy officials are invited to American embassies around the world to celebrate on July 4th, of all things, a successful revolution. Those invitations have now, thankfully, been rescinded. At least someone at State has some decency and class!

Pray for these courageous Iranian protestors. And pray that Israel has the courage and the wherewithal to prevent these lunatic creatures from acquiring a nuclear arsenal!

I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS!

In March, Fannie Mae (FNM.N)(FNM.P) said it would no longer guarantee mortgages on condos in buildings where fewer than 70 percent of the units have been sold, up from 51 percent, the paper said. Freddie Mac (FRE.P)(FRE.N) is due to implement similar policies next month, the paper said.

In a letter to the CEO's of both companies, Representatives Barney Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, and Anthony Weiner warned that a 70 percent sales threshold "may be too onerous" and could lead condo buyers to shun new developments, according to the paper.

Barney Frank is a blithering idiot and his co-conspirator Weiner is just as bad! Has Barney Frank learned nothing from the housing debacle that has created so much turmoil throughout our nation? What a pair of dumbshits!

THE BRILLIANT ERIC AT TYGGGR EXPRESS HAS POSTED A WORTHWHILE READ

Here is just a smidgeon of it:

"President Bush wanted to take out the leaders of Iran. Fellow Neocons Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolofowitz wanted to hit Iran. Ambassador John Bolton was for it.

Yet low poll numbers meant that President Bush could not get the lily livered cowards in Congress to go along with him.

So why is President Obama, who has high poll numbers, hiding under his Oval Office desk in a fetal position rather than condemning the Iranian leadership of the mullahs and Armageddonijad?

Because, to quote Political Goddess Andrea Tantaros, “Obama is a wussie.”

That is the new small w. He is a wussie."

I am finding that a day that begins without Eric and/or Babalu Blog generally doesn't go so well!

IT'S LIKE WATCHING A REALLY BAD CAR CRASH!

As I've mentioned before, during my recent lengthy illness, I got hooked on watching the execrable "Jon and Kate Plus 8" on TLC. Last night, like a lot of people, I was fascinated by how they were going to announce what was already a fact, they had filed for dissolution of their 10-year marriage! Naturally the castrating bitch Kate spent the entire hour of the show casting herself as the heroine and the victim of Jon's "unacceptable activities" when in fact, any man married to her would have fled as though his BVDs were on fire! And, while he still possessed his cojones!

Jon was slightly more articulate than he has been in the past; it's clear that he loves his kids and tried to put up with her royal high and mightiness as long as he could for their sake. Those crooked houses they ordered were darling and his idea for placing them out of the eyeshot of the vulturous pressers was a good one. Naturally, the control freak he is [still] married to wanted them where SHE wanted them. And, as always, she got her way! Good heavens I dislike that woman!

One look at that horrendous haircut she sports is a clue that Kate Gosselin is truly trailer trash. Then there is her sitting on the couch with her filthy bare feet on display - the woman has no class! Jon Gosselin is well rid of her. Here's hoping that cash doesn't trump the best welfare of those 8 adorable children in the divorce.

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DEMOCRATS AND SLAVERY!

Roger Hedgecock tells the truth in this comprehensive article laying out all the ways in which the Democratic Party promoted and protected and attempted to extend the domination and subjugation of the black citizens of this country. Why then does the American black citizen love and adore every lying and racist member of this Party. Are they stupid? Or do the Democrats have a brilliance about flimflamming people that we Republicans have not discovered?

Help to AIDS-stricken people in Africa. The doing of Bill Clinton? Hell no - it was George W. Bush, folks! Foundation of the KKK - Democrats, kids.

THE RUMBLING HAS BEGUN!

This extraordinary op-ed piece, written by Tom Sears, a professor of accounting at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York pretty much makes a great case that The Won's presidency is a complete failure after only 5-1/2 months!

ANOTHER OBAMA SNEAK ATTACK!

Obama's Gun Control by Secrecy". Very Important for you to be aware of a new bill HR 45 introduced into the House. This is the Blair Holt Firearm Licensing & Record of Sale Act of 2009.

We just learned yesterday about this on the Peter Boyles radio program. Even gun shop owners didn't know about this because it is flying under the radar. To find out about this go to any government website and type in HR 45 or Google HR 45 Blair Holt Firearm Licensing & Record of Sales Act of 2009. You will get all the information. Basically this would make it illegal to own a firearm - Any rifle with a clip or ANY pistol unless:

It is registered.

You are fingerprinted.

You supply a current Driver's License.

You supply your Social Security #.

You will submit to a physical & mental evaluation at any time of their choosing.

Each update - change or ownership through private or public sale must be reported and costs $25. Failure to do so you automatically lose the right to own a firearm and are subject up to a year in jail.There is a child provision clause on page 16 section 305 stating a child-access provision. Gun must be locked and inaccessible to any child under 18. The Government would have the right to come and inspect that you are storing your gun safely away from accessibility to children and fine is punishable for up to 5 years in prison.

Surely all or part of this violates the United States Constitution!

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h45/text
and http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-45

PEREZ HILTON - WUSS EXTRAORDINAIRE!

Apparently the appalling provacateur Perez Hilton found himself in an altercation with a member of the Black Eyes Peas staff and found himself on the receiving end of a "whupping"! And while I agree with him that violence is not the answer, hey Perez, what do you call the verbal lashing you give to people you have never met, who have never done anything to you or yours and who may or may not agree with your views on the world? The unacceptable words you use to describe those people. That too is violence and utterly unacceptable. And all those little white lines you draw on the pictures of your victims (and that is truly what they are) you mean-spirited troll - what do you call those but offensive and demeaning hate speech? So your black eye is the least of the retribution you should be receiving young man! For your hateful and hate filled nonsense and the egregious incivility in the service of your own, shameless self-promotion.

WHY ISRAEL DESERVES OUR WHOLEHEARTED SUPPORT

When Israel became a nation, we were the first country to recognize their right to exist. That didn't stop the Arabs from attacking them, unmercifully aiming their tanks and guns on settlements of farmers (and children) and generally behaving the way Arabs always behave, with complete lack of regard for human life.

In the intervening years since 1948, not much has changed, The Arabs are still 7th century savages and Israel continues to hang on by its fingernails.

Our claim to being civilized human largely rests on our ability to defend and protect those less fortunate, less well provided-for than ourselves. And, the reward for us has been that Israel is now and always has been faithful and dependable friend to us.

The sole exceptions to the secure friendship between us and the State of Israel seems to involve the presidency of James Earl Carter, Jr. (the anti-Semitic old fart who should shut his ignorant pie-hole already) and now, the current presidency of Barack Hussein Obama (and who among us would be surprised that HE is no friend to Israel?).

It's my feeling that our souls depend on our support of Israel, and perhaps our survival as a nation as well. Shalom, our longtime and treasured ally. Thanks for taking care of Iran's lunatics for us! If indeed it becomes necessary - and I suspect it will.

PLEASE REFER TO THIS ARTICLE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND COMMON SENSE ON THE ABOVE TOPIC.

HERE'S AN EVIL THOUGHT!

Considering the entire "in the tank for Obama" scenario that the Republicans have whined about for months - and which we have witnessed ourselves, why not make sure that ABC is in strict observance of the FCC rules. A complaint about this should be filed with the FCC which has a permanent cast of characters (not subject to The Won's airy dismissal) and let them decide whether or not there are violations involved in ABC's devotion of massive amounts of time and resources to which is basically a political commercial for the health care bill that those in Congress aren't terribly happy about!

It's just a wild notion but one that could work!

OKAY - I HAVE BEEN REALLY, REALLY CRANKY OF LATE!

This is the result of a great deal of back pain due to our never-ending rain storms here in the District AND the result of my frustration with finding a doctor to roto-rooter out my carotid artery (has to be on my health insurance plan doncha know).

But I do want to make it a point to wish a couple of really special men a Happy Father's Day. One of those men is my beloved cousin Stuart - who has two absolutely delightful sons, Blaine and Nathanial. Stuart takes great joy in being a father and in fulfilling the responsibilities that fatherhood entails. To the point that he is a [retired] lobbyist in the field of father's rights. A chat with Stuart will convince you that single motherhood is a good way to screw up your children. Kids need both parents, but they do, really, need their fathers. The other person I am wishing a Happy Father's Day is my beloved co-worker, Chris, who is the most loving, most involved, most utterly dedicated father. All the propoganda about men being absentee fathers does not take into account men like Chris who are THERE, interested, disciplinarians, with high expectations for the children's performance in school, and quite willing to arrange his life to be sure the mother of his two youngest has the opportunity to be part of their lives. Chris, you're one of the men who give me hope.

Finally, a happy Father's Day to my late, greatly loved father, Gilbert Joseph Miller, who gave all that he was able to give and taught me love of books and reading and history. He was a brilliant and troubled man but never, in any way, shirked his responsibilities as a father. Daddy, I loved you when I was a child and I love you still. Thank you too for imbuing me with your wacky sense of humor. It has kept me sane on many an occasion.

HERE'S WHAT I'VE DECIDED TO CALL HER . . . .

a pretentious moronic badly aging bitch!

Granted, I have never liked Senator Barbara Boxer who likes to present herself as the dainty little prom queen Senator from California. I feel fortunate that I got to vote against her at least once before moving to Ohio.

WASHINGTON -- There's plenty of room for "yes men" in the nation's capital. Less for "yes, Ma'am." Sen. Barbara Boxer's suggestion to a general that she'd really rather be called "senator" has raised a few hackles here.

A brave man, someone who has worked a lot harder than her majesty the petulant little princess from California, and who has sacrificed more and risked more than she could ever possibly be willing to risk or sacrifice, chose to call her, in the polite parlance of the U.S. military "Ma'am" and she has the effrontery to OBJECT to that.

Fuck you, Senator Boxer, and the horse you rode in on! It's a damned pity you have never done one-tenth as much for this country as has this good man!

BILL CLINTON'S NEW SQUEEZE?

What's with the differential in her ta-tas?

TOO BAD IT ISN'T A POSTHUMOUS TRIBUTE!

Okay - that was mean but it's long past time for this woman's shelf-life to have been reached. Not to mention that she is ugly - both outside and inside!

Oakland Rep. Barbara Lee wants Congress to officially recognize veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas "for her pioneering career as a woman in journalism."The Democrat has introduced a three-page resolution that would bestow the House of Representatives' recognition on Thomas and honor her "unflagging and honest coverage of every president of the United States since John F. Kennedy."

I think the word "vicious" was overlooked. If a successful female news person should be honored the likes of Dorothy Kilgallen (who may have given her life for an honest story - she was conducting an in-depth investigation of JFK's assassination at the time of her death which may have been murder) and the extraordinary Cleveland stalwart Dorothy Fuldheim who has an undeniable role in American television news history; she is credited with being the first woman in the United States to anchor a television news broadcast as well to host her own television show. She has been referred to as the "First Lady of Television News." In what may be a legend, it was long rumored that she was thrown out of Nazi Germany by Adolf Hitler because (a) she was Jewish and (b) she would not kowtow to the Nazi p.r. machine.

I started my first career in television news in Cleveland and was fortunate enough to be interviewed by Ms. Fuldheim who refused to hire me becuase "I don't hire potential competition" - the nicest compliment I ever received. She was admired and feared by most in the television news business in Cleveland and was lovingly referred to as "Big Red" by all of us.

So don't pin roses on Helen Thomas whose greatest claim to fame is that she managed to hang on long past her prime! The true great pioneer woman in television news was Dorothy Fuldheim. Don't mess with Big Red.

WELL - IT'S SUMMERTIME AND THE DISTRICT IS OVERRUN WITH TOURISTS!

For some reason I cannot shake the feeling that they are here to visit the relics of the great country formerly known as the United States of America - now known as Obamaland! Somehow I cannot dismiss the belief that this is our last great summer as a nation and we really ought to make an effort to enjoy it fully!

We have a president whose grasp of our nation's history is so ephemeral he feels compelled to apologize for our former greatness, all the while doing what he can, as often as he can to diminish us in the eyes of the world. We used to be a nation with a spine. We used to be the kindest and most generous people on the planet. Anyone who had trouble, we were there. Now those we formerly aided are feeling somewhat sympathetic to our plight as a nation going down the sewer of history!

Quiet rumblings can be felt, however, of Americans who are not willing to surrender their liberty to the ham-handed nannyism of the Obama Administration. These patriots are not willing to be told what to drive, what to eat and what to think. They will drive their comfortable and safe vehicles and will not worry about non-existent global warming. They will eat the wonderful foods that our nation's farmers have grown. They will continue to think and act as free Americans filled with hope and possibilities and are not willing to surrender their souls to the socialism of the current administration. And those quietly authentic Americans can and will prevail as they work to return our nation to its true owners - the people of the United States - and to reject the infamia of the Obamanation!

My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty! Government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from this earth!

SOMEHOW THE LEFT HAS
MANAGED TO CONTORT
ITSELF INTO SAYING
(and perhaps believing)

that David Letterman's wholly inappropriate, offensive and downright creepy remarks about 14-year old Willow Palin were the fault of her mother, Governor Sarah Palin. That's like saying that it was Dr. Tiller's fault that he was killed because he walked in front of a bullet! Or that Pvt. Long is responsible for his own death because he was an Army recruiter!

A 62-year old man making endless suggestive and snarky remarks about Governor Palin is offensive and disgusting - clearly the fact that she is a beautiful, conservative woman makes her fair game. But making those same kinds of remarks about Gov. Palin's 14-year old daughter is completely indefensible and cannot be, as the Left is now claiming, blamed on Willow Palin's mother and father in any way! The person responsible for the poor judgment displayed and the utterly indefensible and offensive comments made by David Letterman is David Letterman - a man who is only 1/4 as funny as he thinks he is and who ONLY keeps his job at CBS because he's a card carrying, Kool Aid drinking liberal!

You should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself Mr. Letterman. And the so-called feminist women who greeted these inappropriate and completely creepy comments made by Mr. Letterman with thunderous silence should be horsewhipped! And yes, I meant horsewhipped. I'm not at all politically correct, have never claimed to be, don't want to be. I'm an old broad who is blunt and outspoken and like myself that way.


UPDATE: CBS has lost a major sponsor and now and only now, do we hear a complete and apparently sincere apology from Herr Letterman!

UPDATE:

Following a week of back and forth between CBS late night comic David Letterman and Sarah Palin over a crude joke he told about the Alaska Republican governor’s daughter, the Olive Garden restaurant says it is cancelling all of its scheduled ads on Letterman’s “Late Show” for the rest of the year.

In an email to a Letterman critic obtained by POLITICO, a spokeswoman for the Italian restaurant chain wrote that “there will be no more Olive Garden ads scheduled for ‘The Late Show’ with David Letterman in this year's broadcast schedule,” citing the talk show host’s “inappropriate comments.”

“We apologize that Mr. Letterman’s mistake, which was not consistent with our standards and values, left you with a bad impression of Olive Garden,” wrote Sherri Bruen, the company’s guest relations manager.

A DERANGED HATER KILLED
A GOOD MAN YESTERDAY

An elderly, demented, 9/11 truther parked his little red car on 14th Street yesterday at lunchtime, exited the vehicle and walked into the Holocaust Museum and killed a good man. We don't know the full extent of Von Brunn's intent, but we can only surmise that one death was not the full extent of his hate-filled mission.

Of course, the Left is now attempting to blame the Tea Party participants, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin and Bill O’Reilly or anyone else they can come up with, fully forgetting the extent of the hatred and vile language they have spewed over the past 8 years, such things as fantasizing about killing the President of the United States (George W. Bush), hate-raping conservative women, and making vile and despicable comments about Governor Sarah Palin's 18-year old and 14-year old daughters (David Letterman owns that particular piece of disgusting and fairly creepy speech).

Here's a novel idea - let's start holding Daily Kos responsible for the killing of Pvt. Long! It makes just as little sense as holding Bill O'Reilly responsible for the death of Dr. Tiller. Or better yet, let's start holding the actual SHOOTER responsible for their own crimes!

Maybe it needs to start with each one of us - the ramping down of the climate of hatred. Yes, sometimes I'm very cranky. Maybe I'll start to control my ire somewhat and remember that all of us - even Barack Obama - are children of God. Recalcitrant, stupid children sometimes - but still God loves us all, even when he despairs of our stupidity and bad behavior.

The thing that has always fascinated me about all these Jews-as-devils conspiracy people is that they are positing an ENORMOUS conspiracy and the laws of nature absolutely dictate that for a conspiracy that big to succeed - nobody can know about it and when the conspiracy is that big, someone will babble! Human nature being what it is. Senator Robert Byrd's former colleagues in the Klan apparently believe that black people aren't human. And yet, a very human, very brave black man, died protecting the visitors to the Holocaust Museum yesterday.

UPDATE: There are unconfirmed rumors in the blogosphere that the wacko Holocaust Museum shooter is a registered Democrat in Maryland. Are there any intrepid citizen journalists out there who want to take a crack at confirming or denying this story, with incontrovertible evidence?
H/T Babalu Blog

WHAT THE HELL WAS SHE THINKING?

Ugly woman; ugly outfit! Entirely too young for her!

I WOULD LIKE TO CONGRATULATE

the Supreme Court of the United States of America for refusing to force the Obama Thugnation to abide by the Constitution of the United States of America vis-a-vis the Chrysler bankruptcy! Hey guys - that's what you're freaking there for! You ought to all be hanging your heads in shame, that's what you all should be doing!

KIM JONG IL HAS STEPPED IN IT BIG TIME!

The two U.S. reporters North Korea has in custody that have been sentenced to 12 years at hard labor, Laura Ling and Euna Lee who work for Al Gore’s Current TV Network, has put the Dear Leader at odds with a more complete humbug [the Gorester] than he is himself but in addition Laura Ling is the sister of Lisa Ling who works for Oprah Winfrey. The Dear Leader knows not what he does. Pissing off Oprah is never a good idea! My goodness, if she sat on him, he'd be nothing but a grease stain on the upholstery! And if she chose, he could be quietly eradicated from among the breathing, his bones ground into dust and scattered on her estate in Santa Barbara - never to be found! She is THAT powerful, you dumb fruitcake!

RANDOM MUSINGS

Yesterday evening I was watching an infomercial which claimed to be programmable to assist a person in finding such items as television remote controls, cell phones, key rings, etc. should they be lost. I couldn’t help but think that the very people for whom this device is intended are the kinds of people who would lose the device within the first few weeks of ownership and thus be really up a stump!

RONALD WILSON REAGAN, R.I.P.

Today marks the 5th anniversary of the death of this giant of a man. Let us remember him with the love and respect he so richly deserves and vow to work harder to honor his "Shining City on a Hill" instead of participating in the endless apologies so beloved of our "whiner in chief".

"And whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears, to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way. My fondest hope for each one of you -- and especially for young people -- is that you will love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism. May each of you have the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute works that will make the world a little better for your having been here. May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek divine guidance, and never lose your natural, God-given optimism. And finally, my fellow Americans, may every dawn be a great new beginning for America and every evening bring us closer to that shining city upon a hill."

--Ronald Reagan (1992)

God bless America and thank you God for Ronald Reagan!

THE LARGEST MUSLIM COUNTRY IN THE WORLD?

The most history-knowledge-deficient President in U.S. history has run his stupid mouth again and has declared this, the land that we love, to be the largest Muslim country on earth. Wait a minute bucko - you are wholly incorrect! There are 1.5 Billion Muslims in the world, 5,220,000 of them living in the U.S. There are also 1.13 billion Catholics in the world, of which 67 million live in the U.S. Now I would object to the President calling this a Catholic country but there is more basis for that than for his other moronic remark. Maybe TOTUS was having a bad day!

DOES ANYONE BUT ME THINK . . . .

That Kate Gosselin is a castrating bitch? During my recent illness, I was bored out of my mind and my overall weakness was such that I truly could not support a book for more than a few minutes not even a paperback. So I watched TV - and out of sheer boredom with the fare on offer, I spent a lot of Memorial Day weekend watching the "Jon and Kate Plus 8" marathon!

I have to say - if someone talked to me in the patronizing snarky tone that Kate routinely uses with her husband, I'd punch them out without even giving it much thought. The fact that Jon does not indicates to me that he has a boatload of self-control or else, no balls. And Kate's nasty disposition is clearly on display in her one daughter - Mady. In all honesty - the shrieking and crying and general nastiness the children display toward one another is not something I would or could tolerate for more than 10 minutes. I am old-fashioned enough to believe that children should be taught to behave early in their young lives.

Kate's always off doing book tours and book signings and personal appearances - all of this self aggrandizement at the expense of her time where she should be tending to and nurturing her children. Jon is always the man left behind to do the job his stay-at-home wife should be doing. It's clear that Jon would prefer to work in a regular job - but the princess that rules the roost at the Gosselin home will not tolerate anything of the sort - that much is clear!

Instead of exploiting her children, this self-important trailer trash woman should set about providing them with a good and loving example. She should start by exhibiting a kind and loving attitude toward her husband. But then this virago is really all about the money. The $75,000 per episode they are making isn't really enough for her grasping and voracious self!

TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT!

The demented fanatic who murdered Dr. Tiller, the abortionist, will not be remembered as anything other than a cold-blooded killer by most people - and rightly so. Yes, Dr. Tiller was an apparently unrepentant murderer of the unborn. And yes, his bloody activities are anathema to most decent human beings. But killing him was not the answer. The lack of logic is towering. You want to make a point that killing is wrong - so you make your point by killing? Hmmmm - that one just skids off into irrational thinking territory at warp speed!

Human life - all human life - is deserving of protection! As a Catholic, I find the murder of Dr. Tiller terribly offensive on other grounds. Dr. Tiller was not able to repent his sins in the split second of his death. That is not a good thing - since the doctors soul was laden with error!

The mainstream media is being exceedingly dishonest in its reporting of the recruiting office killings also. The killer was a convert to Islam. Very few news stories bother to report that fact. Hmmmmm - why is that? Most news reports made a point of mentioning that the killer of Dr. Tiller was, in fact, a Christian. How is that a more important descriptive term than any other? If the fact that the killer of Dr. Tiller was a Christian is an important piece of information, then too, the information that the killer of the 23-year old Army recruiter was a Muslim is equally important. That's called balanced reporting, something not to be found too often in the mainstream media.

But then I'm old and have old-fashioned expectations about honor and honesty and civil discourse!

THE APOLOGY TOUR HAS BEGUN!

Well our peripatetic President has landed in Saudi Arabia en route to Cairo. No word on whether or not he bowed to the Saudi king again, but word has arrived that Osama bin Laden wasn't exactly tickled by our President's trip. Al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri urged Egyptians not to be seduced by Obama's 'polished words' when he makes his planned speech in Cairo. He said in a recording on an Islamist website: "Obama ... is not welcome in Egypt." Apparently Islamofascists don't really cotton to our silver-tongued devil of a president! Can't say I blame them. He is ignorant of history, ignorant of protocol, ignorant of reality. Great Britain was our good and great partner during WWII and our reliable friend ever since but our idiotic naif of a President overlooked inviting the Queen of England (who was herself a member of the British armed forces during WWII) to participate in DD commemoration! What a dumbass! His planned stops in Dresden and Buchenwald are astonishingly tone-deaf faux pas!

Now if my words offend some KoolAid drinking leftists, too damned bad. The incompetent clown that 53% of Americans were fooled into thinking was qualified for the office is doing his damnedest to destroy this nation and I don't like it. I hoped and prayed that he would do well. No such luck. Can the American people force the Congress into impeachment proceedings? Would some attorney answer that for me please?

IF I WERE NOMINATED TO BECOME A U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE. . .

I'd get my hair done! I'm not criticizing on frivolous grounds. Looking your best at important events in one's life shows respect for the occasion and yourself! It's more than just getting your hair done - it's showing up dressed and groomed in a way that indicates you understand the importance of the occasion. But then left wing women seem to think they cannot be taken seriously unless they look like unmade beds! How tragically pathetic they truly are!

MEANWHILE, in other news concerning this nomination, the Senate Republicans intend to take a more "measured" approach to this nominee, in other words, they will fold up their backbones and let the Dems roll over them, just as they always do. Ah, it would be good to have some Republican Senators with cojones! Judge Sotomayor is unqualified and unfit - just like the President who nominated her!

DID YOU MISS ME?

I have been AWOL the past three weeks, felled quite ungraciously by a raging case of double pneumonia! Don't let anyone tell you this isn't a serious situation! I was literally flat on my back. When I asked my doctor (2 weeks ago) why I wasn't mending more quickly, she had the effrontery to say "Because you aren't 18 any longer!" How dare she point out the TRUTH to me! The antibiotic prescribed by the doctor in the emergency room made every single thing I ate or drank taste like soap bubbles or wax! And this, despite the fact that I was SUPPOSED to be hydrating myself. So I choked down the soapy tasting water and tried to convince myself that I liked it! Pfui!

Sam the Wonder Cat was ecstatic that I was home and supine for the better part of 3 weeks. Linda, the beloved sister, was a total rock of support - stopping by daily to be sure I had sufficient to eat and/or drink (we finallly, by process of elimination, settled on Sprite as the only thing that did NOT taste like Palmolive dish soap) and giving Sam fresh water and food since it was impossible for me to pick up his food dish from the floor! As a result, Sam has finally gotten over his antipathy for Linda - a great relief to us both!

So thanks to those of you who inquired, or fussed at me, about my disappearance from the world. And thanks to my co-workers who made certain that my absence was memorialized by an excruciatingly funny get well card which they intelligently held until I was able to lift my head to read it!

Full health is just a few days away! And I did make one discovery during the past 3 weeks. BILLY MAYS is the most annoying man in America - even worse than that ShamWow guy!

PRESIDENT OBAMA - WHY CAN'T
YOU JUST STAY PUT?

The President was craving a hamburger! Or so reports the Associated Press here!

In this state of mind on Tuesday, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden took a short — but wholly noticeable — motorcade ride from the White House to Virginia and pulled into a small, independent burger joint called Ray's Hell Burger.

What - they don't have chefs and ground meat at the White House? You don't have minions to send to Arlington to pick up takeout? For those of you who don't work in The District - you have no idea the havoc that is caused by one of these "wild hairs" when the President has one. Traffic is tied up all over the District since Pennsylvania Avenue is immediately closed down by the Secret Service, not to mention connecting streets. And not just for a few minutes - the tieups usually last for at least an hour. Last night, we were experiencing torrential rains as well as one of Herr Obama's joyrides down Pennsylvania Avenue - it took an hour longer for us to get OUT of the District and on our way home!

When, oh when are you going to move FROM campaign mode, Mr. President, and start freaking GOVERNING. If George Bush had done ANY of this crap, he would have justifiably been crucified by the mainstream media!

SENATOR ARLEN SPECTER IS A
DELUSIONAL JACKASS!

Sen. Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Democrat, said part of the reason that he left the Republican Party last week was disillusionment with its health-care priorities, and suggested that had the Republicans taken a more moderate track, Jack Kemp may have won his battle with cancer.

This is the stupidest part of the blame-Bush syndrome I have seen so far. Arlen Specter has always been a nasty, nasty man who has no loyalty and no compassion and clearly, from this claim of his - absolutely no functioning brain cells! Arlen, shut the hell up already! Nobody gives a rat's eardrum what YOU think!

WHAT HARRY REID SHOULD HAVE SAID TO ARLEN SPECTER!

The Democratic Party will have enough problems in 2010 Arlen, we don't need to add you to them!

UPDATE:

Jay Cost assesses “Snarlin Arlen”’s chances against a Democratic challenger in the 2010 campaign and finds that Senator Specter has made way too many enemies on both sides of the aisle to be utterly “safe” when it comes to retaining his Senate seat, here.